Brickfrog

Already using Debian on my desktop so an upgrade will happen sooner or later.

Not automatic (I think) and a bit clunky but the Strawberry music player does have a transcode feature so you could select music files and transcode them a certain way output to another folder. It’s not something I ever do but I did a quick test to a USB drive and it seems to work okay. It’s an option if you opt to use a gui to click through.

OTOH if you’re happy using the terminal and/or scripting then ffmpeg would be a better bet.

PS - Strawberry does have a panel where it lists “Devices” and maybe your phone could show up there and the transcoding would work a bit more automatically, wasn’t able to test that here.

So, OP is downloading a torrent containing a sequential zip file?

We’re in !jellyfin@lemmy.ml so OP is talking about downloading a media file (.mkv, .mp4, etc.). I don’t think Jellyfin can play .zip files (?) but could be wrong.

So in the filesystem envision a .mkv movie file that exists but is only say 1% complete so maybe it is currently at 1 MB file size. This is a sequential download so it is downloading in order from beginning to end. Media players like Jellyfin, VLC, etc. can recognize and play this .mkv file, normally it’ll stop when it gets to the 1% data end which could be maybe 3 minutes of playback or whatever.

The magic with a sequential download is that it is still downloading, in OP’s case the download is going faster than the media playback. So by the time Jellyfin finishes playing that first 1% of the file the torrent client maybe already downloaded an additional 10% so Jellyfin continues playing the file uninterrupted. Meanwhile the torrent client is still going, since the download rate is ahead of Jellyfin’s media playback that should mean that Jellyfin will eventually play the entire .mkv movie file uninterrupted from beginning to end.

You can sequentially download .zip files as well, in that case it’ll just be this blob of data that starts at the beginning of the file data & goes through to the end. Not sure that is very useful to most people but if the sequential download grabbed the first/end pieces of the file maybe you can at least view the inside file listing of the .zip file before it finishes downloading, could be useful if you just want to preview it before the download completes?

When I’m downloading .part zip files as part of one torrent, how can I go about continuing seeding but not having to have both the archives and the extracted files to save space? Is that even possible?

Normally not possible, you need the untouched torrent data to exist to continue seeding.

No experience with this but I’ve read that if you’re on Linux using a filesystem with FUSE you could sort of keep .zip files intact while still interacting with them, sort of like mounting the .zip files in the live OS. That might be more along the lines of what you’re after since you’ll be able to keep the .zip files untouched in that sense while still being able to use them elsewhere.

Just leave it loaded in the torrent client.

e.g. if a sequential downloading torrent was downloading into “thisfile.mkv” it starts off at 0% - 99% progress. Eventually when it finishes it’ll still be the same “thisfile.mkv” just at 100% complete. Nothing in the torrent client changes, it’ll keep the torrent loaded and seeding unless you configure it to stop.

With OP’s post they are downloading without moving or renaming the file so nothing changes from a torrenting perspective. Not sure if you meant to ask something else, like if you’re moving or renaming the file outside of the torrent client then yeah that would break the seeding.

Do you require that your torrent client download using .part files? Seems like it would be easier to disable that setting in your torrent client so it sequentially downloads into the expected file name and extension. That should be enough for Jellyfin to see it is a .mkv or whatever with the proper name and scan it/play it.

Seems okay to me, though I’m on Firefox desktop with only one extension installed. And using a different Lemmy instance.

Maybe it’s something specific to mobile Firefox and/or your specific Lemmy instance (?)

I use one of the security hardening user.js profiles as a baseline for Firefox e.g. https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js

Beyond that I don’t go crazy with extensions but I do still use NoScript to block javascript by default & only enable it for domains I choose. For ad blocking stuff I handle that at the router level with pfSense + the pfBlockerNG package.